Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Az-Zukhruf, Ayah 9
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Tafsir
And if wa-la-in the lām is for oaths you ask them ‘Who created the heavens and the earth?’ they will surely say the indicative nūn has been omitted because of the other nūn coming after it and likewise the wāw replaced by the damma in -lunna because of two unvowelled consonants coming together ‘The Mighty the Knower created them’ — this would have to be their eventual response that is to say God created them Lord of Might and Knowledge. God exalted be He adds
Related Hadiths
Verily your people would constantly question about this and that till they would say: Well, it is Allah Who created the creation, but who created Allah?
People will continue to ask one another(questions) till this is pronounced: Allah created all things, but who created Allah ? Whoever comes across anything of that, he should say: I believe in Allah.
Ibn Abbas Commentary
(And if thou (Muhammad) ask them) i.e. the disbelievers of Mecca: (Who created the heavens and the earth, they) i.e. the disbelievers of Mecca (will surely answer: The Mighty) in His dominion and sovereignty, (the Knower) of His providence and created beings (created them);